[dev] access key issue

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Thu Jan 23 23:25:32 PST 2003


Zitat von Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:

> Access key support was recently added to the bottom horde menu.  Problem
> is,
> at least for me with Mozilla on linux, they only work if I first click in
> that frame, which is a real pain in the you-know-what.

It wasn't really added to the bottom menu, but to Menu::printItem().
 
> So basically, my users all think that they don't work, and tell me they
> are
> broken.  If I bother to tell them to click in the frame first, they have
> no
> idea what I'm talking about since the frame is the same color as the rest
> and has no borders.  If they do manage to understand, they come to the
> same
> conclusion I did, which is this is a real pain.
> 
> So, questions are:
> 
> 1) Is this browser/OS specific at all?

Sort of. You shouldn't see this in Mozilla as Mozilla users get the new menu
that doesn't have access keys. You should get the old menu only with
browsers that aren't DOM capable.
That leads to another problem. Browsers that aren't DOM capable probably
won't support access keys either, so there's no point in displaying them at all.
 
> 2) If they don't work unless you click in the frame, are they really of
> much
> use?  

No. And that's the reason why I didn't add them to the new menu. It was
rather a side effect that they have been added to the bottom menu.

Jan.

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